http://www.alanhaarhoff.co.za Mobile Marketing, Internet Marketing and Web 2.0 Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:36:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This article is from the master himself, Seth Godin... and very applicable to our current political climate and certain youth leaders... I quote: "Possibly the oldest human worldview is fear of strangers. And right next to that is anger as a byproduct of fear. If a candidate wants to gain attention and possibly votes, then, it makes ... http://www.alanhaarhoff.co.za/?p=252 Courtesy of the World Wide Worx: http://www.worldwideworx.com/archives/247. It seems there has been a lot of debate in the past over Mobile Internet stats in S.A... and now we have a framework for understanding them. Critical, if you think about it... as the usage patterns are very different. I'm mostly a Tier-3 user... The ... http://www.alanhaarhoff.co.za/?p=242 Sometimes in life you get a mental smack in the face with cold, wet fish –and this was my experience when reading this latest post regarding The Grid: http://www.vincentmaher.com/?p=946 Bottom line is, in mobile marketing terms, we now looking at being able to market products and services based on mood. Fascinating ... http://www.alanhaarhoff.co.za/?p=236 Have a peek at this idea as resported by the team at Springwise.com - http://springwise.com/weekly/2009-09-09.htm#ideasculture. It's awesome - giving a Team a tricky problem and waking up the next morning to a bunch of solutions! From my side, I can think of using this internally for feedback from staff on how to ... http://www.alanhaarhoff.co.za/?p=234 I am a bit of a sports fan, and one of the things I wanted to be able to do from my mobile phone was to get the latest sports news - not the articles - just the headlines, and quickly. So, I put SportGator together. What it does is aggregate ... http://www.alanhaarhoff.co.za/?p=227 Hat tip to Vincent Maher for this article on his blog. Seems a Standard Bank customer with an axe to grind has created an account on Twitter with the intention of embarrassing and exposing them. The lesson here is that in it's essence on-line social media is brilliant, but as with ... http://www.alanhaarhoff.co.za/?p=222 What do you do if you fly United Airlines, watch you guitar being treated roughly by baggage handling staff, alert flight attendants who do nothing about it, and upon arrival at your destination, discover that your guitar is broken, and United Airlines refuse to compensate? The answer: Write a song about it, ... http://www.alanhaarhoff.co.za/?p=220 I read an interesting article by the analyst Jeremiah Owyang on his expected “awkwardness” for Facebook over the next few years. It seems the key point is over the nature of public and private data, and Twitter has really turned this on its head with its public and fresh data stream, ... http://www.alanhaarhoff.co.za/?p=215 Some interesting news in the African mobile space – Google have launched a suite of SMS products in Uganda, with the obvious intent of branching out into other African countries. See: ITWeb and IOL. The key points of these services are that they are SMS based, and thus compatible with even the ... http://www.alanhaarhoff.co.za/?p=209 As per their website: ''"The grid is a mobile social network that allows you to chat to friends, see where they are on a map and share photos or videos with them. You also get to view photos and videos relevant to the area you’re in."'' and: ''"The grid uses your cellphone’s position ... http://www.alanhaarhoff.co.za/?p=179